Finding my emails

aqueoushumour01

I have a laptop. Last year I bought a new hard drive and I copied all of my old drive onto the new one (made a carbon copy of it), then popped the new drive into my laptop. That was fine for about a year then I had trouble with the new drive so I put my old one back in. I am only able to run what was the new drive as a removable drive for some reason by plugging it into the laptop via USB. Now, when I run Microsoft Outlook I have all my emails pre this switch and all of them since going back onto the old drive. But I have a year's worth of emails missing relating to the time I was running Outlook from the 'new' drive. These must be saved somewhere but I don't know where. Any ideas? I have just plugged in the 'new' drive via USB and I went into the program files on that drive and ran Outlook from there but they weren't there, only the pre and post emails were there so it must be loading the emails from my main laptop drive. How do I access the lost emails?

davb

They will be in a file called Outlook.pst located on the "new" drive in \Documents and Settings\[Your username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

You can import the emails into the working Outlook by selecting file >import >emails >from another program or file >personal folders file >[browse to the Outlook.pst]

It will create duplicates of the original copied emails though, though you may be able to 'not import duplicates'

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Why won't the new drive work, symptoms?

aqueoushumour01

davb wrote: »

They will be in a file called Outlook.pst located on the "new" drive in \Documents and Settings\[Your username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

You can import the emails into the working Outlook by selecting file >import >emails >from another program or file >personal folders file >[browse to the Outlook.pst]

It will create duplicates of the original copied emails though, though you may be able to 'not import duplicates'

Many thanks. That worked!

closed wrote: »

Why won't the new drive work, symptoms?

I can't remember now, it was a while ago. I think I may have got a blue screen but I had a device you slot the drive in which plugs into the computer via USB and I was able to access my files. No problems with the old drive except it hasn't got a lot of space left!